The Resource This is paradise! : my North Korean childhood, Hyok Kang ; with Philippe Grangereau ; translated by Shaun Whiteside
This is paradise! : my North Korean childhood, Hyok Kang ; with Philippe Grangereau ; translated by Shaun Whiteside
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The item This is paradise! : my North Korean childhood, Hyok Kang ; with Philippe Grangereau ; translated by Shaun Whiteside represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Waubonsee Community College.
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- Summary
- Both a shocking and moving portrayal of scenes of every day life in North Korea, a secretive and brutal nation. Hyok Kang writes of the public executions, of the labour camps and mines, the punishment for 'anti-social behaviour', the secret watching of Beijing television, and the spies everywhere who help enforce the regime by denouncing any deviations from the rigidly patrolled norm. And when the famine comes so too does death by starvation of friends and close ones, cannibalism, and political purge. All this is normal for Hyok Kang. After all, the propaganda North Koreans are fed by their government insists that compared to the rest of the world, this is paradise! Woven into this portrayal is the individual story of a boy who likes to draw - some of his accomplished illustrations are included in the book - and of his migration to China as an asylum seeker
- Language
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- eng
- fre
- eng
- Extent
- xiii, 204 pages, [16] pages of plates
- Note
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- Originally published in Great Britain: London : Little, Brown, 2005
- First pub. in France under the title: Ici, c'est le paradis!
- Isbn
- 9780349118659
- Label
- This is paradise! : my North Korean childhood
- Title
- This is paradise!
- Title remainder
- my North Korean childhood
- Statement of responsibility
- Hyok Kang ; with Philippe Grangereau ; translated by Shaun Whiteside
- Title variation
- My North Korean childhood
- Language
-
- eng
- fre
- eng
- Summary
- Both a shocking and moving portrayal of scenes of every day life in North Korea, a secretive and brutal nation. Hyok Kang writes of the public executions, of the labour camps and mines, the punishment for 'anti-social behaviour', the secret watching of Beijing television, and the spies everywhere who help enforce the regime by denouncing any deviations from the rigidly patrolled norm. And when the famine comes so too does death by starvation of friends and close ones, cannibalism, and political purge. All this is normal for Hyok Kang. After all, the propaganda North Koreans are fed by their government insists that compared to the rest of the world, this is paradise! Woven into this portrayal is the individual story of a boy who likes to draw - some of his accomplished illustrations are included in the book - and of his migration to China as an asylum seeker
- Biography type
- autobiography
- Cataloging source
- AU@
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1986-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Kang, Hyŏk
- Dewey number
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- 325.21095193
- 951.93043092
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- plates
- Index
- no index present
- Language note
- Translated from the French
- LC call number
- HV640.5.K67
- LC item number
- K3613 2007
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
- 1958-
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
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- Grangereau, Philippe
- Whiteside, Shaun
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Kang, Hyŏk
- Refugees
- Korea (North)
- Korea (North)
- Korea (North)
- Label
- This is paradise! : my North Korean childhood, Hyok Kang ; with Philippe Grangereau ; translated by Shaun Whiteside
- Note
-
- Originally published in Great Britain: London : Little, Brown, 2005
- First pub. in France under the title: Ici, c'est le paradis!
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn271866041
- Dimensions
- 20 cm
- Extent
- xiii, 204 pages, [16] pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780349118659
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) o271866041
- (OCoLC)271866041
- Label
- This is paradise! : my North Korean childhood, Hyok Kang ; with Philippe Grangereau ; translated by Shaun Whiteside
- Note
-
- Originally published in Great Britain: London : Little, Brown, 2005
- First pub. in France under the title: Ici, c'est le paradis!
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn271866041
- Dimensions
- 20 cm
- Extent
- xiii, 204 pages, [16] pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780349118659
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) o271866041
- (OCoLC)271866041
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